Malkaridae is a small family of araneomorph spiders first described by Valerie Todd Davies in 1980. In 2017, the family Pararchaeidae was brought into synonymy with Malkaridae. Genera , the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera: Anarchaea Rix, 2006 — Australia Carathea Moran, 1986 — Australia Chilenodes Platnick & Forster, 1987 — Chile, Argentina Flavarchaea Rix, 2006 — Australia Forstrarchaea Rix, 2006 — New Zealand Malkara Davies, 1980 — Australia Nanarchaea Rix, 2006 — Australia Ozarchaea Rix, 2006 — Australia, New Zealand Pararchaea Forster, 1955 — New Zealand Perissopmeros Butler, 1932 — Australia Westrarchaea Rix, 2006 — Australia Whakamoke Hormiga & Scharff, 2020 — New Zealand References Platnick, N.I & Forster, R.R (1987). On the first American spiders of the subfamily Sternodinae (Araneae, Malkaridae). American Museum Novitates 2894. PDF 5Mb (Abstract) (Chilenodes) Araneomorphae families Taxa named by Valerie Todd Davies